Personality Characteristics of Business Majors as Defined by the Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits

Autor/inn/en	Lounsbury, John W.; Smith, Ryan M.; Levy, Jacob J.; Leong, Frederick T.; Gibson, Lucy W.
Titel	Personality Characteristics of Business Majors as Defined by the Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Business, 84 (2009) 4, S.200-205 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0883-2323
Schlagwörter	Business Administration Education; Majors (Students); Relationship; Personality Traits; Life Satisfaction; Assertiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wechselbeziehung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Lebensvollendung
Abstract	Using data from 347 undergraduate business majors and 2,252 nonbusiness majors at a large Southeastern university, the authors drew on J. L. Holland's (1985) vocational theory and investigated whether the 2 groups differed on the Big Five model of personality (B. De Raad, 2000; agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, openness) and 4 narrow personality traits. For business majors, the authors also examined the relations between personality traits and life satisfaction. Business majors scored higher for conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, assertiveness, and tough-mindedness, but they scored lower on agreeableness and openness. All of the traits except for agreeableness and tough-mindedness correlated significantly and positively with life satisfaction. The authors discuss results in terms of similar relations in business occupations and support of vocational theory. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10